Post-Apocalypic Bicycle Messenger...Awesome.

Rating: Null/10 (30 June 2003)

I enjoyed 28 Days Later immensely. Director Danny Boyle's vision of England, devastated by an horrific plague which turns its victims into raging maniacs is frightening and thought-provoking. This movie is raw and difficult to watch, so fake sci-fi/horror enthusiasts and the faint-of-heart need not waste their time. The violence is brutal and constant.
Bicycle Courier Jim awakens after an accident-induced coma to find himself alone in the city of London. He explores the empty metropolis and quickly learns of a catastrophe. A virus has spread, there has been a mass evacuation, many people have died. Those infected are caught in a state of permanent violent rage. Jim, along with other survivors, must decide what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for, in the world post-apocalypse.
This story of the apocalypse, like so many others, is really about what happens AFTER the apocalypse. What kind of people are the survivors? How do the survivors cope? How do they interact? What kind of society are they going to form in the aftermath? Questions of morality and existence are raised which the viewer must answer.
I recommend this movie to enthusiasts of such films as The Road Warrior, The Quiet Earth, The Postman. 28 Days Later is difficult to watch, at times, but poignant and inspiring and very, very relevant.